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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies ...

Plan B snaps up second NZ planning business

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
Western Australian based financial planning group Plan B has continued to stretch out over the Tasman with the acquisition of its second New Zealand based planning firm in a fortnight. Plan B has snapped up boutique planning firm, Rutherford Rede (Northland) ...

Banks to fund consumer IT security: Symantec

Banks may have to pay for the IT systems of their clients if they want to avert the trend where consumers are refusing to transact online due to rampant IT identity theft and sophisticated internet scams. David Sykes, vice-president of Symantec's Pacific ...

Commonwealth revives Colonial hybrid

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Commonwealth Bank's treasury managers have revived a controversial funding structure to sell $700 million in hybrid capital. CBA issued a bland and brief announcement yesterday that said the bank planned to issue ill-defined "Funds Management Securities". ...

Advice scam nets accountant 8 years inside

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
An accountant who fleeced nearly $1 million from investors through his financial advice business has been jailed for eight years. Piet Walters was found guilty of 14 charges of dishonesty relating to $972,000 given to his Drury Management business in ...

Coming soon: Virgin personal loans

Virgin Money Australia is set to shake up the personal loans sector by introducing a personal loan product that gets rid of exit or early repayment fees and promises quicker turnaround times for loan applicants. The group plans to emulate the success ...

Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data just released showed that housing starts were down 2.3 per cent over the last quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis and this represented a 5.5 per cent fall over the last year. On this national basis new private ...

There's room for more alpha: T. Rowe Price

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... investors the world over for nearly 70 years, US based T. Rowe Price has avoided the Australian market, until now. But with the red-hot global run that most Aussie equities managers have ridden to record returns now cooling, and a crowded landscape of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
Further analysis of the national accounts data released late last week shows that the textile, clothing and footwear industry expanded by 10 per cent year on year, growing 9.2 per cent during the June quarter compared to an overall seasonally adjusted ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
The national accounts released yesterday show that Australia's GDP grew at only 0.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The increase in GDP was a consequence of an increase of 0.5 per cent in final consumption expenditure, 0.3 per cent in private ...